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245			_aSPECIAL issue on the quest for excellence in public administration
260			_c1996
300			_ap.121-289
362			_aFeb
520			_a"The main theme of this special issue is to reexamine the stance of scientizing or marketizing public administration. Since the turn of the decade there has appeared a megatrend devoted to reengineering the field of public administration. The focus of the development revolves around scientizing public administration. It is not disputable that public administration involves the study of empirical problems. But it is not entirely clear that applying "scientific," i.e., value neutral, methods alone can satisfactorily resolve most empirical problems in public administration. Based on the assertion that all organizations, private or public, are essentially the same because they are dealing primarily with classic problems of business management, new theories have ben proposed mainly to argue that public sector needs to adopt private sector techniques to become more efficient. This new paradigm advocates to "marketize" public administration. With it, modern state becomes a corporate state. All these claims need to be closely examined here"
650			_aPublic administration - United States
650			_aBureaucracy
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
909			_a30973
999			_c30973 _d30973